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Re:Achieving Great Privacy with Safari
on Sunday March 23, 2025 @04:11PM (#43455521)
Private browsing tabs and windows are preserved across restarts. (This is optional and can be configured to forget them upon restart.)
I am totally stumped – how do you enable this on the Mac? I can’t find the option at all, and Google is no help.
Re:Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?
on Sunday January 05, 2025 @05:19PM (#42605526)
I’ve used .ME in the past, but then I settled on just using a .COM. The cost difference was negligible and nobody ever queries a .COM – I had people thinking my .ME was a mistake.
Unless you desperately want COMMONNAME.TLD, I’d go with the .COM for the lack of headaches. They’re ~$20 a year, which doesn’t seem like much money for the simplicity.
Re:Order and orient the keys on your keychain
on Sunday October 27, 2024 @01:15AM (#41960022)
That’s an interesting minor but significant difference. I’m from the UK, and both of my house keys (Yale, Abloy) have a distinct ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ orientation. Every house key I’ve ever had has been like this. The keys for my desk drawer and filing cabinets too.
Car keys don’t though, as far as I can remember.
Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?
on Monday October 07, 2024 @01:06PM (#41768205)
Great choice. There’s so much to love in that book.
Re:The End Times have come for the Pinboard bookmarking service
on Friday September 13, 2024 @03:33PM (#41534385)
Is Pinboard actually closing? There’s nothing to indicate that on the site’s blog or its Twitter[2] (which had a post four days ago).
[1]: https://blog.pinboard.in/blog/ [2]: https://x.com/Pinboard
Re:When Did Dogs Become Our Best Friends?
on Monday March 25, 2024 @03:17PM (#39820256)
It’s an interesting question. I don’t know if there’s any evidence of wolf domestication by Neanderthals. If they didn’t domesticate them, it would be interesting to try to work out why – maybe there’s a subtle difference in psychology between H. Sapiens and H. Neanderthalensis that enabled us to bridge that gap but not them?
Re:ASCII Art: From a Commodity into an Obscurity
on Thursday December 28, 2023 @10:14AM (#38794155)
Yes and no. Mostly no, I think.
In a lot of cases (most?) even plain-text email is rendered in proportional fonts which don’t work for ASCII art.
The default for all mobile email clients, Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail is now to render plain-text in proportional. Those who get it monospaced have chosen to do that. It’s also made worse by Outlook’s insistence on removing ‘extra’ linebreaks by default. AFAIK, there’s no way to switch off that behaviour except email-by-email, and you can’t know if your recipient has it or not.
Re:ASCII Art: From a Commodity into an Obscurity
on Thursday December 28, 2023 @07:05AM (#38792623)
I still dabble in ASCII art a bit, mostly in HTML comments and email headers. It’s kind of a difficult art-form to practice now, given that monospaced text is relatively rare.
Here’s are my pets in ASCII, who go out in the headers of my emails:
.-"-.
^...^ |\./| /|^ ^|\
(=^I^=) )) =(^,^)=)) {/(_O_)\}
/ " \ (( | | (( _/ ^ \_))
( |"| ))) (|||))) (/ /'\ \)
==m m== =m'm= ""' '""
Re:How and why we removed jQuery from Gov.uk
on Thursday August 11, 2022 @02:05PM (#32429580)
For anyone thinking that this is an insignificant saving of "only" 32kb, it's really important to remember that many of the site's users will be amongst the poorest in society. Many of them will be accessing it using the oldest, slowest devices; things far slower than the average HN reader's last few phones. Anything that can be done make the site work better for them is worth the effort.
Terence Eden has a really good blog post about just this topic: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiven...
A prominent composer lost his Wikipedia page
Re:Courts block two Biden administration Covid vaccine mandates
on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @11:17AM (#29405326)
That does say… something. I’m just not sure what.
iPhone 13 and 13 Pro review: If you could have three wishes
Re:Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communi...
on Monday September 20, 2021 @03:53AM (#28591269)
That was my experience too, the few times I tried it. I haven't been back for just that reason. There's nothing that I can do on there that I can't do on the real internet and even the tiniest risk of CSAM material reaching my machine is not worth it.
It's sad but I think in most modern democracies that are relatively free, like the USA and EU, the primary use for these services is CSAM. There's no other reason to use it, except maybe paranoia or technical curiosity, and only the former will keep someone using it. The technically curious will move on quite quickly.
The Base45 Data Encoding
Monica: Personal CRM Done Right
4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google
Re:The Evolution of Hacker News (2013)
on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @12:01PM (#26079806)
Interesting to see how stable the design of Hacker News has been. Here’s the earliest I c Ould find in the Wayback Machine – from 21st February, 2007: https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycomb...
Some changes – most notably the name – but you could easily mistake it for the current design at a glance.
Semantic Linefeeds
Re:Why lasers are so brilliantly useful
on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:17PM (#25765052)
In high school, my physics teacher told us about his time at Glasgow University where he’d worked on Scotland’s first laser. This would have been in the ’60s. He said it was fascinating, but they had no idea what to do with it then. He called it “a solution in search of a problem”.
Re:Monopoly Technology Platforms Are Colonizing Education
on Sunday December 06, 2020 @03:25PM (#25326338)
You're not most people: most people will work in environments that use Windows PCs. I've worked a bunch of office jobs, and every one has used Windows.
Is Dixon’s Ticonderoga Truly ‘The World’s Best Pencil’? We Don’t Think So
Re:Domains for the Rest of Us
on Monday September 21, 2020 @06:41AM (#24541823)
cointrauma.com: Crowdsourced counselling for cryptocurrency-related upsets.
wettiness.com: Using machine learning to accurately rate the dampness of objects in photos.
Re:Domains for the Rest of Us
on Monday September 21, 2020 @06:37AM (#24541798)
I got chokeshottie.com immediately followed by fleshwrap.com...
And several reloads later hardpapercock.com.
Re:What are those grids of glass in the sidewalk and why are they purple?
on Saturday January 04, 2020 @10:04AM (#21955220)
Lots of them all over Scotland, too.
Re:The Light Phone
on Saturday January 04, 2020 @03:53AM (#21953772)
That's hyperbolic nonsense. There's a huge number of people, myself included, that continue to use an iPhone SE with a 4" screen without the issues you describe. A 4.7" screen is nearly 20% larger than that; it doesn't "destroy" gaming or internet browsing.
A lot of these same people Apple to release an updated version of the iPhone SE form-factor. Many of these people are on Hacker News; search for earlier threads about the iPhone SE being discontinued to see just how many.
* Sent from my iPhone SE
Re:The Joys of Unix Keyboards
on Monday December 30, 2019 @09:08AM (#21913394)
And best of all: if you don't mind a blank keycap, you can get a non-stepped keycap for the Ctrl key.[1]
Re:The Joys of Unix Keyboards
on Monday December 30, 2019 @09:05AM (#21913378)
While you're strictly and literally correct, I think you're missing the point. The vertical position of the Backspace/Delete key is still the same on US-ANSI and EU-ISO.
The advantage of the Unix layout is that it brings the Backspace/Delete key down a row, to be opposite the Tab key. That puts it within the main bank of keys, and within easier reach -- a definite benefit for such a frequently used key.